ScholarlyCommons

Title

Facsimile of LJS 280, Decretales abbreviate

Authors

Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania LibrariesFollow

Date of this Version

3-3-2015

Files

Comments

An abbreviated version of the decretals compiled by Raymond of Peñafort in the 1230s by order of Pope Gregory IX. Table of contents entries for the chapters and chapter numbers added in the margins in a 14th-century hand. Mnemonic verses indicating the contents of the manuscript and three lines of a hymn to Saints John, Peter, and Lawrence are written inside the upper cover in a 15th-century hand.

Keywords

Canon law--Early works to 1800 Codices, Abridgements, Decretals, Manuscripts Latin--13th century, Manuscripts Medieval

See More at Penn in Hand

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4953343

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs280.html

Recommended Citation

Porter, Dot, "Facsimile of LJS 280, Decretales abbreviate" (2015). Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS): EBooks. 149.
https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/149